Jessica Fugler
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
fuglerj@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
Profile
Jess Fügler is an American designer whose work explores ideas of narrative, process, and value in domestic objects. Inspired by past and current cultures along with industrial production and handcraft, Jess' work possesses a poetic playfulness driven by a hands-on approach to materials and making.
Jess lives and works in New York where she runs her own studio practice. She is the Co-Founder of Other Kingdom and teaches at Parsons School of Design. Alongside her own practice, Jess currently is the Design Lead at Sabai, a sustainable furniture company, with notable past roles as a Senior Product Developer for HAY, the Design Director for Matter Made, Industrial Designer at Quirky, and Designer at David Weeks Studio. Upcoming Course - PUPD 2090 - Computer Aided Design: Focus on 3D modeling in Solidworks, Fusion 360, and rendering in Keyshot.
Degrees Held
MA Design Products, Royal College of Art, London UK, 2014
BID Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 2010
Gestaltung Exchange Program, Bauhaus Universiät-Weimar, Weimar Germany, 2009
Current Courses
- Design Studio 1
PUPD 2010 - Fall 2026
Future Courses
- Computer-Aided Industrial Des
PUPD 2090 - Spring 2027
Past Courses
- Computer-Aided Industrial Des
PUPD 2090 - Spring 2026